Samad Hassanzadeh has been elected to take the helm of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines, and Agriculture (ICCIMA) for a new four-year term.
The election to select the new president of ICCIMA was officially held on Sunday morning in Tehran with attendance of 412 members of the Board of Representative.
Hassanzadeh secured 208 votes of the total votes cast to become the president of Iran Chamber of Commerce which is known as the country’s private sector parliament.
He previously served as the vice president of Iran Chamber of Commerce.
Hassanzadeh was followed by Farajollah Me’mari, Ahad Azimzadeh and Mojtaba Ghiyabi with 181, 15, and 5 votes respectively. The rest three votes were announced dismissed.
The elections come after the Iran Chamber of Commerce President Hossein Selahvarzi finally agreed to hold snap elections following months of controversy as a supervisory council at the Ministry of Industry, Mine, and Trade (MIMT) argued that he was not eligible to run for the June 18 elections in which he won the majority of the votes to become the president of Iran Chamber of Commerce.